Dietary protein and risk of type 2 diabetes: findings from a registry-based cohort study and a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies by Mingjing Xu, Jianheng Zheng, Tao Ying, Yang Zhu, Jun Du, Fan Li, Bo Chen, Yuwei Liu, Gengsheng He

“…The U-shaped association (P-nonlinear < 0.001) remained in adults with hypertension with a narrower protective range (12.20–15.35%E), with a linear association in adults with NAFLD (HR per 1%E: 0.952, 95% CI: [0.910, 0.995]), whereas no significant association in adults with hyperlipidemia or central obesity. …”
Get full text

Metabolomics Profiling of Epicardial Adipose Tissue: MESA and the Rotterdam Study by Ian J. Neeland, Fang Zhu, Goncalo Graca, Anastasios Lymperopoulos, Gianluca Iacobellis, Ali Farzaneh, Daniel Bos, Mohsen Ghanbari, Jeffrey J. Goldberger, Maryam Kavousi, Philip Greenland

“…Associations between fasting serum metabolites and EAT volume were assessed using cross‐sectional linear regression of individual‐level data in MESA and validated in Rotterdam. …”
Get full text

Relationships between physical frailty, depressive symptoms, and cognitive ability among community-dwelling older adults in India by T. Muhammad, Manish Kumar, Shobhit Srivastava, Waad Ali

“…Univariate and multivariable linear regression models were used to examine the associations between frailty, depressive symptoms, and cognitive ability in older men and women, as well as frailty-cognition association by depressive status. …”
Get full text

Citywide park renovations and changes in perceived stress: a quasi-experimental study among low-income communities in New York City by Rachel L. Thompson, Katarzyna E. Wyka, Kelly R. Evenson, Lorna E. Thorpe, Glen D. Johnson, Brian T. Pavilonis, Terry T.-K. Huang

“…Methods Pre- and post-renovation data on the Perceived Stress Scale and park use from 162 adults living near (< 0.3 miles) 31 renovated parks and 151 adults living near 21 sociodemographically matched control parks were analyzed. Linear mixed-effects difference-in-difference (DID) regression measured the association between park renovation and change in perceived stress (post-pre) in the overall sample and stratified by baseline sociodemographics. …”
Get full text

Remnant cholesterol is associated with poor prognosis in patients with hepatitis B-related acute-on-chronic liver failure: a Chinese population-based study by Juan Liu, Yuna Wang, Songsong Yuan, Jiwei Fu, Wentao Zhu

“…Restricted cubic spline analysis identified a non-linear relationship between RC and HBV-ACLF prognoses, in which the Q3 RC tertile had the lowest 28-day and 90-day HBV-ACLF survival rates; this was further confirmed by Kaplan-Meier analysis. …”
Get full text

A Combined‐Mode Machine Learning Model for Predicting Stroke Recurrence During Hospitalization in Patients with Acute Minor Ischemic Stroke by Wanxing Ye, Jin Gan, Meng Wang, Ziyang Liu, Hongqiu Gu, Xin Yang, Chunjuan Wang, Xia Meng, Yong Jiang, Hao Li, Liping Liu, Yongjun Wang, Zixiao Li

“…Compared with the traditional generalized linear model (GLM), the XGB, LGB, ADA models yielded area under the curve (AUC) values ranging from 0.788 to 0.803 after optimization. …”
Get full text

Pregnancy complications affect kynurenine pathway metabolite concentrations in umbilical cord blood by Michelle Broekhuizen, Heike Allenberg, Claude P. van der Ley, Sofie K. M. van Zundert, Zongye Cai, Martijn van Faassen, Daphne Merkus, A. H. Jan Danser, Anja Lange, Irwin K. M. Reiss, Matthias Heckmann

“…Differences in metabolite concentrations were analyzed using unpaired t-tests and linear regression models to control for potential confounders. …”
Get full text

Vaginal Microbiota Changes in the Vulvar Lichen Simplex Chronicus by Ling Mei, Dongmei Wei, Yueyue Chen, Yueting Zhang, Tao Cui, Jian Meng, Xiaoli Zhang, Yuqing Liu, Lisha Ding, Qian Wang, Tao Wang, Xiaoyu Niu

“…Results: The LSC group had less alpha diversity than H group (p < 0.05) and the beta diversity of LSC group was also distinct from the H group. Linear discriminant analysis effect size (LEfSE) analysis indicated that genus Sneathia and family Leptotrichiaceae were discriminant taxa in LSC group. …”
Get full text

Análise das variações climáticas na ocorrência de doenças respiratórias por influenza em idosos na região metropolitana de João Pessoa – PB / Analysis of climatic variations in the... by Jullianna Vitorio Vieira de Azevedo, Carlos A. C. dos Santos, Madson Tavares Silva, Ricardo Alves de Olinda, Débora Aparecida da Silva Santos

“…Para isso, foram usados modelos lineares generalizados a partir da regressão linear de Poisson para relacionar a variável dependente configurada como os registros de internações por causas associadas à influenza e as variáveis independentes (precipitação pluvial, temperatura média do ar e umidade relativa do ar), para análise das relações instituídas pela modelagem foi aplicado o teste de variância ANOVA com nível de significância de 0,05 de probabilidade para determinar que variáveis independentes eram mais significativas na modelagem. …”
Get full text

A Comparative Study of Oral Health and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life in Children Aged 2–7 Years with Cerebral Palsy and Healthy Controls by Maryam Zamanzadeh, Hanie Ranjdoust, Abolfazl Hosseinnataj, Masoud Gharib, Hamidreza Khoshgoiyan, Morteza Ghasemi, Maedeh Salehi

“…Data were analyzed using SPSS version 22, employing the independent t-test, Pearson correlation, linear regression, and Chi-square tests (P < 0.05). …”
Get full text

Pregnancy Outcomes in Women Infected With COVID-19: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Maryam Nikpour, Mehdi SepidarKish, Mahboobeh Darzipoor, Mahmoud Sadeghi Haddad Zavareh, Rahele Mehraeein, Zeinab Pahlavan, Fereshteh Behmanesh

“…Modified Poisson regression and mixed linear model were used to assess the adjusted risk ratio (aRR) and adjusted mean difference (aMD) between COVID-19 infection and pregnancy outcomes. …”
Get full text

Association of metallic elements with telomere length in children with autism spectrum disorder by Qiuyan Zhu, Tong Zhang, Yanan Sun, Jinming Liu, Zizi Liu, Fengxiang Wei, Yu Jin

“…TL was measured using digital PCR, while metal concentrations were assessed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Linear regression analysis was first conducted to explore the correlations between metal elements and TL in both groups. …”
Get full text

Linking the Planetary Health Diet Index to sarcopenia: the mediating effect of the non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio (NHHR) by Huan Chen, Huan Chen, Zhao Wang, Changsin Lee, Rongcan Liu, Junlong Song, Junsheng Zhang, Ning Du, Chan Kang

“…Analysis of the dose–response curve suggested a linear relationship between PHDI and sarcopenia. Furthermore, a significant positive association was identified between NHHR and sarcopenia [OR = 1.09, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.16], with NHHR found to decrease as PHDI increased [beta coefficient (β) = −0.09, 95% CI: −0.11, −0.06]. …”
Get full text

HSFMamba: Hierarchical Selective Fusion Mamba Network for Optics-Guided Joint Super-Resolution and Denoising of Noise-Corrupted SAR Images by Zhicheng Zhao, Qing Gao, Jinquan Yan, Chenglong Li, Jin Tang

“…HSFMamba leverages the long-range modeling capability of the state space model with linear complexity and incorporates optical images through two progressive cross-selection scan mechanisms to perform high-quality reconstruction of SAR images corrupted by speckle noise. …”
Get full text

Sex differences in loneliness, social isolation, and their impact on psychiatric symptoms and cognitive functioning in schizophrenia by Jinghui Chi, Nannan Liu, Tian Tian, Qiaona Jiang, Chenghao Lu, Yanzhe Li, Xiaofei Zhang, Yanyan Ma, Lili Wang, Shen Li

“…Psychopathology, cognitive functioning, loneliness, social isolation were assessed using the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), the Repeated Battery for Assessment of Neuropsychological Status (RBANS), the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Loneliness Scale (Version 3) and the Social Isolation Index (ISI). Multiple linear regression models were conducted to test the independent, relative, and synergistic efects of loneliness and social isolation on psychiatric symptoms and cognitive performance for male and female patients separately. …”
Get full text

Effects of solar radiation modification on precipitation extremes in Southeast Asia: Insights from the GeoMIP G6 experiments by Ze-Qian Feng, Mou Leong Tan, Liew Juneng, Mari R. Tye, Li-Li Xia, Fei Zhang

“…Bilinear interpolation and linear scaling were used to downscale and bias-correct daily precipitation data before calculating precipitation extreme indices, respectively. …”
Get full text

Psychological well‐being and worries among pregnant women in the first trimester during the early phase of the COVID‐19 pandemic in Denmark compared with a historical group: A hosp... by Lotte Broberg, Ane L. Rom, Mie G. deWolff, Stinne Høgh, Nina O. Nathan, Louise D. Paarlberg, Karl B. Christensen, Peter Damm, Hanne Kristine Hegaard

“…Differences in WHO‐5 mean scores and in the prevalence of women with score ≤50 were assessed using general linear and log‐binomial regression analyses. The Cambridge Worry Scale was used to measure the content and degree of major worries. …”
Get full text

Association of nociplastic and neuropathic pain components with the presence of residual symptoms in patients with axial spondyloarthritis receiving biological disease-modifying an... by Joachim Sieper, Denis Poddubnyy, Hildrun Haibel, Fabian Proft, Mikhail Protopopov, Valeria Rios Rodriguez, Murat Torgutalp, Judith Rademacher, Henriette Käding, Fares Al Mohamad

“…The regions of the WPI score and items of the PD score were used for cluster analyses.Results Linear multivariable regression analysis showed that WPI and PD were independently associated with ASDAS (b=0.1, 95% CI 0.04 to 0.17, and b=0.05, 95% CI 0.02 to 0.08, respectively) and BASDAI (b=0.24, 95% CI 0.08 to 0.39, and b=0.17, 95% CI 0.1 to 0.25, respectively) in r-axSpA patients receiving stable treatment with bDMARDs. …”
Get full text

Synergistic effects of PM2.5 components and ozone exposure on lung function in young adults: A cohort study in Shandong, China by Wenfeng Kang, Jia Zhang, Xiaoyan Wang, Yun Mu, Wenxiu Zheng, Yajuan Zhang, Mingyu Feng, Zhenzhong Wang, Yi Liu, Xiaoshuai Zhang, Peng Lu

“…Forced Vital Capacity (FVC), first-second forceful expiratory volume (FEV1.0), peak expiratory flow rate (PEF) and 50 % forceful expiratory flow rate (FEF50 %) were used as lung function indices. A linear mixed-effects model was employed to evaluate the impact of PM2.5 components and its interaction effects with O3 on lung function. …”
Get full text

Medical mistrust and COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and behavior: Findings from a population-based cohort study in Michigan by Soomin Ryu, Akash Patel, Kristi L. Allgood, Delvon T. Mattingly, Jana L. Hirschtick, Robert C. Orellana, Nancy L. Fleischer

“…For vaccination uptake as ever receiving at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. We conducted (1) linear regression models to examine cross-sectional associations between MMI and vaccine attitudes (n = 3865), (2) modified Poisson regression with robust standard errors to estimate prospective associations between MMI and vaccination uptake (n = 3741), and (3) effect modification and stratified analyses by race and ethnicity. …”
Get full text